542
431
Steam now accepts Bitcoin for purchases
https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/
10 years ago
508
121
Who Was Ramanujan?
https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665?source=linkShare-1b4595cbd64d-1461823459
407
49
Rube Goldberg machine in HTML forms
http://sebastianlyserena.dk/
388
216
Atari co-founder: mobile games make me want to throw my phone
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/28/atari-co-founder-nolan-bushnell-mobile-games-make-me-want-to-throw-my-phone
318
150
SpaceX undercut ULA rocket launch pricing by 40 percent: U.S. Air Force
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-spacex-launch-ula-idUSKCN0XP2T2
300
82
Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors
http://www.jamapi.xyz/
298
164
On the (Small) Number of Atoms in the Universe
http://norvig.com/atoms.html
237
85
ACM 2015 Technical Award Recipients
http://www.acm.org/awards/2015-technical-awards
235
199
Teen birth rate hits all-time low, led by 50% decline among Hispanics and blacks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/28/teen-birth-rate-hits-all-time-low-led-by-50-percent-decline-among-hispanics-and-blacks/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_teen-births-115pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
194
53
A Deep Learning USB Stick
http://www.movidius.com/news/movidius-announces-deep-learning-accelerator-and-fathom-software-framework
209
The Suicide of Venezuela
https://joelhirst.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/the-suicide-of-venezuela/
191
203
What is the best part about being a Software Engineer?
http://www.alexkras.com/what-is-the-best-part-about-being-a-software-engineer/
185
117
Mark Zuckerberg Gets to Control Facebook a While Longer
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-28/mark-zuckerberg-gets-to-control-facebook-a-while-longer
175
142
Benefits of 1 Minute of All-Out Effort during Exercise
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/1-minute-of-all-out-exercise-may-equal-45-minutes-of-moderate-exertion/
188
Amazon Reports Surge in Profit
http://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-reports-surge-in-profit-1461874333
153
126
Suspect jailed indefinitely for refusing to decrypt hard drives
http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-months-for-refusing-to-decrypt-hard-drives/
151
42
How we found a bug in Amazon ELB
https://sysdig.com/blog/amazon-elb-bug/
146
34
The MakerBot Obituary
http://hackaday.com/2016/04/28/the-makerbot-obituary/
135
189
How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get?
http://rameznaam.com/2016/04/12/how-cheap-can-electric-vehicles-get/
134
157
End of Golden Era for Investors Spells Troubles
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/be-afraid-be-very-afraid-if-you-re-investing-for-the-long-run
131
CareKit Framework
https://github.com/carekit-apple/CareKit
★ 2.5k Swift – 10 years ago
128
54
Lawyer Submits Brief Partially in Klingon for Paramount Language Lawsuit
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzmetJxi-p0VM19nbUpyNXE0a28/view
127
118
Tell HN: Apply HN applications now closed, let's discuss the next step
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588730
125
9
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Sampling
https://galeascience.wordpress.com/2016/04/27/markov-chain-monte-carlo-sampling/
120
89
Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8B deal
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-nbcuniversal-buys-dreamworks--20160428-story.html
119
50
This year’s Founders' Letter
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/this-years-founders-letter.html
38
Rebol vs. Lisp Macros
http://blog.hostilefork.com/rebol-vs-lisp-macros/
111
The Case Against Reality
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-illusion-of-reality/479559/?single_page=true
115
39
Multithreading in modern C++
http://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/multithreading-in-modern-c
110
13
Front-End Performance: The Dark Side
https://dev.opera.com/blog/timing-attacks/
107
75
Drone unlikely to have hit BA plane near Heathrow, government says
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36159117
101
43
Docker on Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 5
https://blog.docker.com/2016/04/docker-windows-server-tp5/
116
Hire characters, not skill sets. My most important questions in interviews
http://voss.world/hire-characters-not-skill-sets-my-most-important-questions-in-interviews/
95
62
An AI First World
http://avc.com/2016/04/an-ai-first-world/
92
27
C++ Stackless Coroutine
https://github.com/jbandela/stackless_coroutine
★ 332 C++ BSL-1.0– 10 years ago
91
GitLab Major Security Update for CVE-2016-4340
https://about.gitlab.com/2016/04/28/gitlab-major-security-update-for-cve-2016-4340/
90
32
How to read a patent in 60 seconds (2010)
http://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-read-a-patent-in-60-second/
86
143
Apple’s loudest activist investor just dumped his stake
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/28/apples-loudest-activist-investor-just-dumped-his-stake/
80
How to Party Like It’s 1999: Emulation for Everyone
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11386
78
66
Are History’s “Greatest Philosophers” All That Great?
http://dailynous.com/2016/04/26/were-historys-so-called-greatest-philosophers-all-that-great/
144
Real story of “Yelp Girl” who called out CEO for low pay
https://backchannel.com/yelp-raises-wages-after-talia-janes-viral-open-letter-673ac01bf7cb#.t92c6xh8o
72
PGHoard: Tools for making PostgreSQL backups to cloud object storages
http://blog.aiven.io/2016/04/postgresql-cloud-backups-with-pghoard.html
71
28
You Could Almost Do Anything Pt. III
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/27/do-anything-iii
70
30
Google Reveals Its Cloud Computing Vision
http://www.51zero.com/blog/google-reveals-its-cloud-computing-vision
68
6
Show HN: TinyRave – SoundCloud for JavaScript Music
http://tinyrave.com
65
Type III Societies (Apparently) Do Not Exist
http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07844
25
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch – part 4
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/a-polyglots-guide-to-multiple-dispatch-part-4/
64
17
A prog by any other name
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/a-prog-by-any-other-name
51
Ask HN: Is anybody doing something productive with IBM Watson or is it just BS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11590090
60
12
Learning from Your Bugs
https://henrikwarne.com/2016/04/28/learning-from-your-bugs/
The Mastermind, Episode 7: The Next Big Deal
https://mastermind.atavist.com/the-next-big-deal?src=longreads
59
18
Custom Deleters for C++ Smart Pointers
http://www.bfilipek.com/2016/04/custom-deleters-for-c-smart-pointers.html
56
3 women who radically changed the course of technology
http://www.rexsoftware.com/ada/
If cryonics suddenly worked, we'd need to face the fallout
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160424-if-cryonics-suddenly-worked-wed-need-to-face-the-fallout
45
Weeding the Worst Library Books
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/weeding-the-worst-library-books
Deprecating: java.util.Optional.get()?
http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2016/04/deprecating-optional-get/
